[Good that she listened, actually. This brings her to nod, even as a shadow, like the moon in eclipse, passes over the curious twinkling lights that make up the bulk of her emotional responses. Again and again and again... What that might have already done for them.]

And see what persists. I lost everything except for what the snake brought me. [Her knife, the bird, everything else... all gone. But no one had anything else belonging to them last week, had they? There was no indication they'd been around at all...]

I was rather cross for him for that. The bird wasn't his to take.

[She'd torn the wardrobe up a bit in searching for it.]